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Thursday, 19 November 2015

Welcome to today's Guest Designer, Chris !

Today we have another treat in store for you as we have another Guest
Designer sharing a fabulous project for the current challenge of Remember, Remember. So without further ado I'd like to introduce Chris of Pearshapedcrafting.

Hello everybody! My name is Chris, but you probably know me as ‘pearshapedchris’ as my blog is pearshapedcrafting!
I
was thrilled to be asked to be a Guest Designer here at Stamps and
Stencils! The Design Team is so talented so it is a real honour to be
here!
I have my Mum to thank for my love of making things,
although I only got back into crafting for myself when I retired from
teaching and my Mum died shortly after that so she never got to see any
of the things I have made.
It’s quite funny now to see a ‘new’
technique and to remember doing that very thing – although without the
range of products we have nowadays! I love all kinds of crafting
especially where it includes stamping.

The
theme ‘Remember, Remember’ is an ideal opportunity to show you some of
my memories! Some time ago I made a little wall hanging about my Grandad
so here is my Grandma’s version. I started with quite a pile of
things I might use but as I went along some of them were swapped.

I
stuck encyclopedia paper over the hanging and used the doily stencil in
the corners, I used a dark colour so that it would show through when I
painted over it.

I stamped the film strip on and then added some stamped gelli printed paper and some inked tape.

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I
painted some embellishments.

Grandma was mounted onto card.

The corners were stamped, then everything was assembled to reflect the one I made of Grandad.

If you want to see them together and the details on how I made this please hop over to my blog.

My
Grandma was very old fashioned and the photo you see here was taken
from one we had taken on a day trip to the seaside, so I hope you will
come and see what we looked like on our day trip!

Thanks once again to Sue and the team for inviting me today!

Chrisx

Fabulous
project Chris ! What a lovely way to remember your Grandparents, thank
you so much for sharing this wonderful memory with us.

There is still time to join in with the current challenge Remember, Remember and there is still one more day to go on the DT call !